Toxicity of Over-the-Counter Cough and Cold Medications

A 36-month-old boy was transferred to the pediatric emergency department (ED) from an outside hospital for lethargy and vom-iting. Several hours earlier, the child’s mother had given her son an unspecified amount of Dimetapp (Whitehall-Robins, Madison, NJ) cold syrup containing PPA (12.5 mg/5 mL) and bromphenira-mine (2 mg/5 mL). ................
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